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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

"Your neighborhood is ruined -- but with conditions"

It's become a familiar refrain from the Portland City Council. Most recently it was the SoWhat immigration jail next door to an elementary school -- finally approved today. Now it's a food slop center out in Lents. When it comes to screwing up a nice neighborhood, the answer, it seems, is yes, but with conditions. How Saltzmanesque.

The approval is tentative; the City Council will take a final vote on the proposal at another hearing.

Whats the matter, more difficult to stab people in the back when they are sitting in front of you? Another hearing? most likely less people to have to face!

Time after time it seems no matter what the issue,....they turn their backs on the citizenry. What do they take, hate the people pills in addition to workshops as to how to deal with screwing the people?

I knew years ago how bad they were, now a new group and even worse!! I also knew that they would begin with neighborhoods with less clout so to speak and that eventually they would move on to other places. It is like they take an inch and now miles and no neighborhood is exempt anymore from the insanity.

clinamen, the reason that the council has to do a tentative approval is that they have to adopt formal findings of fact to support a quasi-judicial land use decision. This means that they have to take two votes: one to approve or disapprove the project, and then one a few weeks later to approve or disapprove the specific findings to justify their decision. If they approve a project they usually try to get the applicant to write the findings for them.

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 156
At this date last year: 225
Total run in 2014: 401
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In 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
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In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269